We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all.

Clarence Darrow, quoted in William Hilleary and Oren W. Metzger, The World's Most Famous Court Trial: State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Complete Stenographic Report of the Court Test of the Tennessee Anti-evolution Act at Dayton, July 10-21, 1925, Including Speeches and Arguments of Attorneys, p. 299